Sensory ideas

Re: Sensory ideas

• kcisthebombdotcom member

  May 2014

  Our house is a sensory playground. Outside we have a playground, eight foot sandbox, and water table. We do lots of bubble play, heavy work pushing a kids sized wheelbarrow with items in it. Inside we have a climber and slide for rainy days, tunnels to crawl through, and a kids trampoline in our finished basement. We do play doh everyday along with painting/crafts.

  

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• funchicken member

  May 2014

  Spooko said:

  Check out The Out of Sync Child Has Fun. There are a ton of activities in there!

  
  Ditto this. It depends on what kind of sensory needs your child has, so something that works with one kid might not work with yours, e.g. for some sensory seekers spinning can be helpful, but it makes my DD extremely nauseated. Swinging and jumping work really well for us, though.

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• bumpuser511563 member

  May 2014

  I would so do the backpack with stuff in it.
  
  Whenever we go to the store, I pack a small ziplock of pretzels, a bottle of water, Ipad, extra clothes and some toys. If I need water for me, I put a bottle sometimes for the weight.
  
  We have full and empty laundry baskets that DS can push around and pieces of our stair stepper exercise equipment he can push around. We also have stairs where DS has to climb if he wants to bring toys up or down.
  
  I know with all this we hope he is tired and is not!
  

  

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• mommytoconnor member

  May 2014

  My house is all about sensory. Some of the things I have are an inflatable pool with balls (target for like $20), trampoline, wagon with weighted balls for pulling, pounding toy, weighted blanket for naps, weighted belt, lotion massages with joint compressions, large bucket with beans, rice box, feather box, water table, slide, swing, playdough press, theraputty. We also do messy things (pudding paint, finger paint), have him do lots of wheelbarrel walks with hands on ground and you hold feet, lots of heavy work, like loading weighted balls into wagon and pulling. All of the things I have done are simple and easy to do and help immensly.

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• annibes member

  May 2014

  Trampoline, swinging in blankets (takes 2 adults), carrying or rolling around my medicine ball, weighted blanket, beans in a bin, playdoh, sometimes we bury him in cushions and either "sit" on him or hit the cushions with pillows (this is therapeutic for DH and me too on rough days, haha!). DH carries him around upside down, we "toss" him using a blanket so he lands on his bed with a bounce. DS and DH wrestle a lot. DH and I hold up cushions and he crashes back and forth into us. When it's warm he plays with the hose. He's getting good at telling us what he needs.

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• Fairynice member

  May 2014

  These are all great ideas! I haven't been able to convince my kiddo to ride the scooter board we bought him for his birthday, so something I've been doing with it lately is sitting on it myself and having him push me around. He thinks it's hilarious and it's heavy work. Just watch your knees on corners! We also do a lot of play-doh, kinetic sand, water play, pasta/bean box, burying in couch cushions and I often have him help me mix things for baking.

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• bumpuser511563 member

  May 2014

  Oooh!
  
  I got another one!
  
  Have your child wear a huge over-sized shirt. DS loves getting DH's polo shirts that he leaves on the floor and putting them on like those expensive human sock thing that I saw on amazon.
  

  

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